Summary mode

Sometimes a catalog may contain overlapping or duplicated clip definitions, for example if you import logs from completed projects, or if you capture a tape in several segments.

• Use Summary View to temporarily combine clip segments and filter out duplicates (this is useful if you have imported clips from multiple sources, eg. as both movie files and projects)
• Summary view usually provides a concise, non-overlapping summary of the contents of a tape.
• You can Copy summary clips and then Paste them into a new catalog as normal clips.

If you use a Whole tape capture log to capture tape it's very unlikely that all the file boundaries will fall on an exact scene change boundary. Some scenes will end up spanning more than one imported clip therefore. There are different ways to combine these broken clip segments and join them into a single clip for each scene:

• Use Summary View.
• Use the Auto-merge DV clips belonging to same shot Preference option to automatically join clip segments at the time of importing a DV movie
• Use the Auto-merge DV Clips tool to clean up selected DV clips by automatically merging any start & end segments that come from separate media files but are known to belong to the same scene. This command also tidies the catalog by removing the original long capture clips from the catalog (leaving just the detected scenes).
• Use the Merge command to manually merge two or more contiguous clips into one.

How summary mode works

The changes made by summary mode only affect how clips are displayed and exported. The original clips in the catalog are not altered, so you can safely toggle in and out of summary view as required. Summary mode displays a concise description of the scenes on a tape as follows:

• If a catalog has several clips with the same in and out value (eg. from different projects) these are merged into one
• If you captured several long clips, each of which contains several scenes, the long clips are hidden and only the scenes are listed
• If a single scene is split in two because it was captured as two files these sections are joined up.
• Source Media View is similar to Summary View but shows precisely one clip for each source media file.